Library Blog

I’m so pleased to be starting here at the Providence Public Library as the new Rhode Island Collection Librarian. You can’t imagine how thrilled I am to be working with this collection – the statewide focus belies the wide variety of

This month I want to highlight Women's History Month by featuring an article by Rhode Island Collection researcher and Historian, Laura Prieto. Laura is a History/Women's and Gender Studies Professor at Simmons College in Boston, MA. She visited

Recently, I read an article titled “Bring Back Shushing Librarians” by Laura Miller. I think it said what many of us in the profession, and many library users, have been thinking, but felt uncomfortable stating. As Miller writes “I’ve